Heavyweights clown around for a cause at Fenway

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Baseball season may be over, but that doesn’t mean Fenway can’t play host to a circus anymore.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and their elephants stepped up for cancer research and the Jimmy Fund yesterday at the old ballpark.

The Greatest Show on Earth and its elephants joined with young patients from the Jimmy Fund and their families to make one-of-a-kind works of art in a therapeutic painting session in the shadow of the Green Monster.

The elephants stepped in paint to create their Mona Lisas, while the kids painted the lumbering pachyderms.

The artwork will be displayed on the Jimmy Fund Clinic walls, and all the participants received an invitation to attend the circus.